{"id":781,"date":"2018-03-07T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=781"},"modified":"2018-03-23T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:06:49","slug":"dinners-1-mississauga-2-yukon-not-quite-the-same-but-both-delightful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Dinners 1) Mississauga 2) Yukon NOT QUITE THE SAME BUT BOTH DELIGHTFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dateline: \u00a0Mississauga in \u00a0March 2018, and Yukon Territory in summer 1961<\/div>\n
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Tonight we celebrated our daughter in law Julie\u2019s birthday at a fancy and fine Italian restaurant in Mississauga. All the trimmings\u2026real knives, forks, spoon, bruschetta, wine, beer, spaghetti with shrimp, Irish coffee\u2026in short THE WORKS. \u00a0Happy birthday, julie. \u00a0I have a recipe for you below.<\/p>\n

Then I came home and was combing through my mining days pictures, now converted to digital. \u00a0And what to my wondering eyes did appear but a supper in the bush. \u00a0Candlelight, dinner in a \u00a0washbasin (double duty), a bed made of balsam poles \u00a0and a bit of luxury with a real mattress. \u00a0This was the only job where a \u00a0real mattress was provided. \u00a0Never had \u00a0one that summer so do not know how this fellow, Bill Dunn, got this one. \u00a0Stole it probably, he was good \u00a0tat that kind of ting. \u00a0And he is all dressed for a fancy meal in long John;s\u2026then ready for bed \u00a0after a basin full of slop.<\/div>\n
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I am amazed at the number of people who wish they had the adventures that came with mining exploration. \u00a0Maybe this picture will change minds.\n<\/div>\n
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I think this is Bill Dunn, one of our Yukon Crew. \u00a0Became a good friend for that short Yukon summer. \u00a0How did he get there?<\/div>\n
He was engaged to be married to a girl in Peterborough or Lindsay. \u00a0The night before the wedding his friends put him on a plane to Whitehorse as an \u2018end of wedding\u2019 gift. We hired him. \u00a0 Dirty trick, right? Not so sure Bill was the marrying kind really.\u00a0 He left her standing at the altar but I don\u2019t think he would have been the best kind of husband. \u00a0I could say more but won\u2019t unless pressed by a reader.\u00a0 He found another girl in Mayo Landing\u2026another disaster. \u00a0In a drunken rage she tried to knife him but failed. \u00a0Much more to that story that is \u00a0also better not told. \u00a0Bill was \u00a0 quite happy eating out of this wash basin. \u00a0Then again it may not be Bill\u2026all I have is a corner of his nose, his hairy lower legs and his supper. \u00a0 How come has new boots? \u00a0That is a real mystery. \u00a0Most or our boots were gum rubbers braided so baldy by the low growing brush that they were full of holes \u00a0for water to rush in and \u00a0rush out. That is why his feet are so clean. \u00a0Maybe he stole those \u00a0boots from someone\u2026.maybe a new guy on the crew that did not stay long\u2026a lot of guys drifted \u00a0in \u00a0and out of our \u00a0bush \u00a0camp. \u00a0 Why? \u00a0Well it certainly was not the food. Fine five star dining every night providing you had a wash basin.<\/div>\n
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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
March 2018<\/div>\n
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Dateline: \u00a0Mississauga in \u00a0March 2018, and Yukon Territory in summer 1961 Tonight we celebrated our daughter in law Julie\u2019s birthday at a fancy and fine Italian restaurant in Mississauga. All the trimmings\u2026real knives, forks, spoon, bruschetta, wine, beer, spaghetti with shrimp, Irish coffee\u2026in short THE WORKS. \u00a0Happy birthday, julie. \u00a0I have a recipe for you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}